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>The failure to provide facts, to challenge assertions and claims, to actually know, in our news media is super annoying. This is still a result of the fact th
by Roritharr 10y ago
>The failure to provide facts, to challenge assertions and claims, to actually know, in our news media is super annoying.
This is still a result of the fact that technical journalists get paid a fraction of what an engineer gets paid. So if you have the knowledge to write good articles, you're rather going to work in the field than report on it.
- _yosefk 10y agoWhich itself is a result of the fact that people will not buy a product designed by people not competent enough to make it work, but they will happily read complete nonsense, and thus there's no incentive to pay what it takes to hire competent tech journalists.
- agumonkey 10y agoThat's an acute definition of fiction vs reality.